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Four Pillars: Further musings on trust

June 12th, 2006 · 11 Comments · Four pillars

As recommended by Coding The Markets, I ordered Larry Harris’s Trading and Exchanges; and as recommended by Martin Geddes, I ordered Adam Seligman’s The Problem of Trust.
I’ve now received both books, and I’m working my way through them. Thanks again to both.
A few quick observations:
1. When I looked at Harris’s definitions of trustworthiness and creditworthiness, [...]

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Link spam

June 12th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Four pillars

For the last week or so, I’ve noticed that I get the odd site linking to me that has nothing at all to do with the subject or tone of my blog. I guess link-spamming has been happening for a while and I’ve just been lucky so far.
Since I don’t actually display those that link [...]

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Four Pillars: Venezuela: One way to get people to think Opensource

June 12th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Four pillars , Uncategorized

I’m trying to get more information, but this story got my attention this morning.
I quote from the press release:
A program to train over 400 thousand people in open source software - as part of Mission Science - will start on Monday, June 12 in Venezuela. This training program will be carried out by the National [...]

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